Federal Court orders Origin Energy to pay $17 million penalty over breaching hardship obligations.

Electricity provider Origin Energy has been ordered by the Federal Court to pay more than $17 million in penalties for breaching its obligations to customers experiencing hardship and payment difficulties.

Key points:
More than 90,000 customers were affected
Origin Energy disconnected some customers after failing to recognise they were suffering financial hardship
The Australian Energy Regulator says the automated processes Origin put in were not a good substitute for personal service
It is the largest total penalty ever imposed for breaches of the national energy retail law and rules.

Origin admitted that its automated processes for hardship customers resulted in it breaching its hardship obligations on more than 100,000 occasions over four years until October last year.

In total, more than 90,000 customers in New South Wales, the ACT, Queensland, and South Australia were affected.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/20....22-06-29/origin-ener

How Australian drivers could be TAXED for every kilometre they travel - as government ponders radical replacement for fuel excise as petrol cars disappear from roads.

A leading economist has warned that Australian motorists could be taxed for every kilometer they drive because phasing out petrol cars would put a massive hole in the budget.

A sweeping switch from petrol-powered cars to electric vehicles is planned as part of Labor’s plan to cut carbon emissions by 43 per cent by 2030, which passed both chambers of Parliament in September.

However, the federal government’s National Electric Vehicle Strategy Discussion Paper recognizes that such a shift will result in a massive drop in revenue from the existing fuel tax, which is nominally used to fund the maintenance of the nation’s roads.

“They need to find an alternative source of income,” Brian Fisher, managing director of BAEconomics, told Daily Mail Australia.

https://ustoday.news/how-austr....alian-drivers-could-

*Beware of Party Drugs*
"In 2022, there were 92,699 deaths that occurred by 30 June and were registered by 31 August, which is 13,524 ( *17.1%* ) more than the historical average."

If a party drug was forced onto 95% of the population and the year after there was a 17% increase in deaths ... it would be banned *WITHOUT* question.

It seems the AMA, RACGP, TGA, ATAGI, AND Ahpra are taking both drug money and party drugs.

https://www.abs.gov.au/statist....ics/health/causes-de

Remdesivir Labelling Is Exempt from Warnings 👇🏼🔦

REMDESIVIR LABELLING – WARNINGS DO NOT APPLY

Why has the TGA/John Skerritt made Remdesivir labelling exempt from the labelling requirements in:

(a) section 1.3(1)(a) of Part 2 of the current Poisons Standard; and (b) section 1.3(1)(c) of
Part 2 of the current Poisons Standard.
Note 1: Note 2:
Under section 1.1(1) of Part 2 of the current Poisons Standard, a scheduled substance or preparation must not be supplied unless labelled in accordance with section 1 of Part 2 of the current Poisons Standard.
Section 5 of this instrument exempts the specified products from the following labelling requirements in section 1 of Part 2 of the current Poisons Standard:

1 (a)  labelling of the primary pack and immediate container with signal words, as required by section 1.3(1)(a);

2 (b)  labelling of the primary pack and immediate container with the cautionary statement ‘KEEP OUT OF REACH OF CHILDREN’, as required by section 1.3(1)(c).

https://www.tga.gov.au/sites/d....efault/files/2022-08

In Love and Courage
Frontline Workers Speak Out!
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SPIA UPDATE 9/29/2022:

These 175 countries have all signed:
🔥 indicates latest

✅Afghanistan
✅Albania
✅Algeria
✅Andorra
✅ Angola
✅Antigua and Barbuda
✅Argentina
✅Armenia
✅Australia
✅Austria
✅Azerbaijan
✅Bahamas
✅Barbados
✅Belarus
✅Belgium
✅Belize
✅Benin
✅Burundi
✅Bolivia
✅Bosnia and Herzegovina
✅Botswana
✅Brazil
✅Bulgaria
✅Burkina Faso
✅Cabo Verde
✅Cambodia
✅Cameroon
✅Canada
✅Central African Republic
✅Chad
✅Chile
✅China
✅Colombia
✅Comoros
✅Congo
✅Costa Rica
✅Côte d'Ivoire
✅Croatia
✅Cuba
✅Cyprus
✅Czechia (Czech Republic)
✅Democratic Republic of the Congo
✅Denmark
✅Djibouti
✅Dominica
✅Dominican Republic
✅Ecuador
✅Egypt
✅El Salvador
✅Equatorial Guinea
✅Eritrea
✅Estonia
✅Eswatini
✅Ethiopia
✅Fiji
✅Finland
✅France
✅Gambia
✅Gabon
✅Georgia
✅Germany
✅Ghana
✅Greece
✅Guatemala
✅Guinea
✅Guinea-Bissau
✅Guyana
✅Hungary
✅Iceland
✅India
✅Indonesia
✅Iran
✅Iraq
✅Ireland
✅Israel
✅Italy
✅Japan
✅Jordan
✅Kazakhstan
✅Kenya
✅Kiribati
✅Kyrgyzstan
✅Laos
✅Latvia
✅Lebanon
✅Lesotho
✅Liberia
✅Libya
✅Liechtenstein
✅Lithuania
✅Luxembourg
✅Madagascar
✅Malawi
✅Malaysia
✅Maldives
✅Mali
✅Malta
✅Marshall Islands
✅Mauritania
✅Mauritius
✅Mexico
✅Micronesia
✅Moldova
✅Monaco
✅Mongolia
✅Montenegro
✅Morocco
✅Mozambique
✅Myanmar🔥
✅Namibia
✅Nepal
✅Netherlands
✅New Zealand
✅Nicaragua
✅Niger
✅Nigeria
✅North Korea
✅North Macedo
✅Norway
✅Oman🔥
✅Pakistan
✅Palau🔥
✅Palestine State🔥
✅Panama🔥
✅Papua New Guinea
✅Paraguay
✅Peru
✅Philippines
✅Poland
✅Portugal
✅Qatar
✅Rwanda
✅Romania
✅Russia
✅Saint Vincent and the Grenadines🔥
✅Saint Lucia🔥
✅Samoa🔥
✅San Marino🔥
✅Sao Tome and Principe
✅Saudi Arabia
✅Senegal
✅Serbia
✅Seychelles
✅Sierra Leone
✅Singapore
✅Slovakia
✅Slovenia
✅Somalia
✅South Africa
✅South Korea
✅South Sudan
✅Spain
✅Sri Lanka
✅Sudan
✅Suriname
✅Sweden
✅Switzerland
✅Syria
✅Tajikistan
✅Tanzania
✅Thailand
✅Togo
✅Tunisia
✅Turkey
✅Turkmenistan
✅Uganda
✅Ukraine
✅United Arab Emirates
✅United Kingdom
✅United States of America
✅Uruguay
✅Uzbekistan
✅Venezuela
✅Zambia
✅Zimbabwe

And here are the 20 remaining countries that are being negotiated now:

Bangladesh
Bahrain
Bhutan
Brunei
Grenada
Honduras
Holy See
Haiti
Jamaica
Kuwait
Nauru
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Solomon Islands
Timor-Leste
Tonga
Trinidad and Tobago
Tuvalu
Vanuatu
Vietnam
Yemen

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